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. . . see "PEOPLE" for related links Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility. --Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) British journalist, _My Life in Pictures_ [1987], p. 94 ![]() . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ACQUAINTANCE COMPANIONSHIP, (THE) COMPANY (YOU KEEP) DEDICATION FAMILIARITY GIFTS GREETINGS HAPPINESS HUGS IRISH TOASTS/BLESSINGS KNOWING (SOMEONE) LOYALTY see: "MEETING" PLEASING (OTHERS) RECOGNITION RELATIONSHIPS REUNIONS SECRETS TRUST One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. --Henry Brooks Adams (18381918) American historian & man of letters. _The Education of Henry Adams_ [1907] I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. --Pietro Aretino (14921556) Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist. My friends! There are no friends. --Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Apothegms_ [1624], No. 97 It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.] From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Dedicatory Ode" The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves and shows himself for what he truly is. --Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) English novelist who was a son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and became a Roman Catholic priest. In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Friends") - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. --Bible "John" 15:13 He that is not with me is against me. --Bible "Luke" 11:23 Wealth maketh many friends. --Bible "Proverbs" 19:4 Do not trust in a friend; do not put your confidence in a companion; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom. --Bible "Micah" 7:5 - Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Friendship, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) - Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. --Albert Camus (19131960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. But of all plagues, Good Heaven, they wrath can send, Save, save, Oh, save me from thy candid friend! --George Canning (17701827) British statesman; prime minister [1827]. - You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. --Dale Carnegie (18881955) American writer and lecturer. In a Nutshell: Six ways to Make People Like You Principle 1: Become generally interested in other people. Principle 2: Smile. Principle 3: Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Principle 4: Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Principle 5: Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Principle 6: Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely. --Dale Carnegie (18881955) American writer and lecturer. _How to Win Friends and Influence People_ [1936] - Agreement in likes and dislikes this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. --Cataline (10862 B.C.) Roman politician. In Sallust (86?34? B.C.) _The War with Cataline_ Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. --Jennie Jerome Churchill (18541921) American-born British mother of Winston Churchill. "Friendship", _Small Talk on Big Subjects_ [1916] Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. An old man passed me on the street today; I thought I knew him but I couldn't say. I stopped to think if I could place his frame. When he tipped his hat I knew his name. Hello old friend, It's really good to see you once again. Hello old friend, It's really good to see you once again. --Eric Clapton (1945 ) English singer and guitarist. "Hello Old Friend" Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Christabel_, pt. II In prosperity our friends know us; In adversity we know our friends. --J. Churton Collins (18841908) British author, critic, and scholar. In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 5 [1989]. - If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources_, p. 108 [1899]. - - Have no friends not equal to yourself. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation; these are advantages. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued; these are injurious. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. _Analects_, xvi, c.500 B.C. from H.L. Mencken's _Dictionary of Quotations_ - Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. --Dinah Mulock Craik (18261887) English writer and poet. Love your enemies, just in case your friends turn out to be bunch of bastards. --R.A. Dickson To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him two. --Norman Douglas (18681952) Austrian-born British novelist and essayist. _Almanac_ [1941] - You got a lot of nerve To say you were my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning You got a lot of nerve To say you got a helping hand to lend You just want to be on The side that's winning. --Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (1941 ) American singer and songwriter. "Positively 4th Street" [1965 song] - - We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Friendship" _Essays_, First Series [1841] It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_, First Series [1841], "Friendship" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Friendship" _Essays_, First Series [1841] Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Friendship" _Essays_, First Series [1841] The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. - In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. --English proverb Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. --Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, screenplay, "Casablanca" [1942] [Rick speaking] - 'Tis great Confidence in a Friend to tell him your Faults, greater to tell him his. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack [August 1751] There are three faithful friends an old wife, and old dog, and ready money. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1738] - - Those will be thy worst Enemies not to whom thou hast doth evil, but who had done evil to thee. And those will be thy best Friends not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. - - On the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends. --John Gay (16851732) English poet and dramatist. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. --John Gay (16851732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_ [1727] "The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf" - - Never have a companion who casts you in the shade. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. _The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647] True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island...to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. - The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. ^ Heinrich Heine (17971856) German poet. Heine died in proverty, deserted by his friends. The sole person to attend his deathbed in his squalid Parisian garret was the composer Berlioz, 'I always thought you were an original, Berlioz,' observed the dying man. ^ I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds. --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. Quoted in "American Way" (magazine) [August 1974]. There is no friend like an old friend Who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, No homage like his praise. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. "No Time Like The Old Time" Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature no one can possibly entirely approve of us. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _The Indignations of E.W. Howe_ [1933] Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _A Thousand and One Epigrams_ p. 88 [1911] The friendship that can cease has never been real. --Saint Jerome (c.340420?) Translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. _Letter 3_ My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored. --C.E.M. Joad (18911953) English philosopher. In "Observer" [12 Demember 1948]. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. [Friends are] God's apology for relations. --Hugh Kingsmill (18891949) English writer. In Michael Holroyd _The Best of Hugh Kingsmill_ [1970]. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. --Jean de La Fontaine (16211695) French poet. - It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much the weariness we have of the old ones or the pleasure of changing, as the disgust of not being admired enough by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those who do not know us as well. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678], Number 178 In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] #99 - I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Old Familiar Faces_ [1798] Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. --Oscar Levant (19061972) American pianist and actor. Quoted in the introduction to Artemus Ward _Artemus Ward, His Book_ [1964 ed.]. - Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand, but do not try building a house on it. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _Mere Christianity_ [1952], Book 4, Chapter 7 Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.' --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. - Stand with anybody that stands *right*. Stand will him while he is right and *part* with him when he goes wrong. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, [16 October 1854]. There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. --Franηois Mauriac (18851970) French poet, novelist, and dramatist. I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. --William Melmoth _Fitzosborne's Letters, on Several Subjects_ [1815] Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends. --John Muir (18381914) Scottish-born naturalist who was largely responsible for the creation of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks. If you have a suffering friend, be a resting-place for his suffering, but a resting-place like a hard bed, a camp-bed: thus you will serve him best. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. "Of the Compassionate" in _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ [1892] - Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. _The Diary of Anaοs Nin_ vol II [1967], [entry of March 1937.] What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. "San Francisco" _The Diary of Anaοs Nin_ [1944-1947] - When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. --Henri Nouwen (19321996) Dutch Catholic priest and writer. I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. --Blaise Pascal (16231662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensιes_ [1670], no. 104 Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people we exist alone. Man is the only creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he aserts the contrary he is lying. --Marcel Proust (18711922) French novelist. _Remembrance of Things Past_ [19131927] "The Sweet Cheat Gone" Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ True friendship is never serene. --Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sιvignι (16261696) French writer whose letters constitute one of the most celebrated collections of epistolary writing. _Lettres. A Madama de Grignan_ [10 September 1671] May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of love lose a feather. --Edward Bannerman Ramsey (17931872) [Dean of the University of Edinburgh]. _Reminiscences of Scottish Life: A Toast_ In time of prosperity friends will be plenty. In time of adversity not one among twenty. --John Ray (16271705) English naturalist and botanist. _Comp., A Collection of English Proverbs_ p. 11 [1678] My friends have failed one by one, Middle-aged, young, and old, Till the ghosts were warmer to me Than my friends that had grown cold. --Christina Rossetti [pseud. Ellen Alleyne] (18301894) English poet. _A Chilly Night_ [1856], Stanza 2 What became of the friends I had With whom I was always so close And loved so dearly? [...] Friendship is dead: They were friends who go with the wind, And the wind was blowing at my door. --Rutebeuf (12451285) French poet. "La Complainte Rutebeuf" O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. If in this troubled world of ours I still must linger on, My only friend shall be the moon, Which on my sadness shone, When other friends were gone. --Emperor Sanjo (9761017) The 67th emperor of Japan. Poem, after 1016; William N. Porter (trans.) _A Hundred Verses from Old Japan_ [1979] p.68. - Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. - - We are advertised by our loving friends. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. He that is thy friend indeed He will help thee in thy need. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. "The Passionate Pilgrim" [1599] Et tu, Brute? (You too, Brutus?) --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_ [1599], act 3, sc.1 - Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. --attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891) American Union general [c. 1870]. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I might almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. He makes no friend who never made a foe. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. _Idylls of the King_, l. 1109 I had two friends. The one offered me friendship on such terms that I could not accept it without a sense of degradation. He would not meet me on equal terms, but only be to some extend my patron. He would not come to see me, but was hurt if I did not visit him. He would not readily accept a favor, but would gladly confer one. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [4 March 1856] - "Around the Corner" By Henson Towne Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end, Yet the days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year is gone. And I never see my old friends face, For life is a swift and terrible race, He knows I like him just as well, As in the days when I rang his bell. And he rang mine if, we were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men. Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired of trying to make a name. "Tommorow" I say "I will call on Jim" "Just to show that I'm thinking of him." But tommorow comes and tommorow goes, And distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner! yet miles away, "Here's a telegram sir" "Jim died today." And thats what we get and deserve in the end. Around the corner, a vanished friend. - The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Letter to his nephew Bushrod Washington, [15 January 1783]. We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. --Evelyn Waugh (19031966) Engish novelist. - Skywalker: Your overconfidence is your weakness. Emperor: Your faith in your friends is yours. --Kasdon and Lucas, screenplay, "Return of the Jedi" [1983] You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose. --anon. ----- amity [AM-uh-tee], noun: Friendship; friendly relations, especially between nations. comity [KOM-uh-tee], noun: 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility. 2. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another. 3. The group of nations observing international comity. end page | FABLE - FAME | FAILURE | FAMILIARITY - FANTASY | FARMING - FATE | FATHERS - FEELINGS | FEMINISTS - FIFTIES (THE) | FIFTY - FLAG | FLATTERY - FOLLOWERS | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 1 (A-O) | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 2 (P-Z) | FOOLISH - FORESIGHT | FOREST - FRAUDS | FREE - FREE TRADE | FREEDOM | FRENCH (THE) - FRIENDS | FRUGAL - FUTURE | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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